David Hare: ‘I am sick to death of hearing about the need for strong women as protagonists’

David Hare: “I have the right to portray all kinds of women without being called misogynistic”JAY L CLENDENIN/CONTOUR BY GETTY IMAGES

What has compelled David Hare to finally write his first television serial at the age of 70? The answer, he says, is what has always compelled him throughout his almost 50-year career as a playwright and screenwriter: the desire to get to an idea first. “What I’ve always wanted,” he says, “is to be ahead of the curve. For people to say, ‘That is on the nail, that is exactly what my life is like now.’ ”